Steph's first day off for the second baby

Today was the first of 379 days off for stephany. As much as I'd love to say we're going to do tons of things and cram as much as possible into this next year and 2 weeks I have my doubts. a toddler and a newborn can't be the easiest to accomplish a lot with.

So since steph is 38 weeks pregnant and showing signs of being in early labor we didn't do much today. I got up at 8:30, steph slept in till 9:30 then cleaned the upstairs bathroom before having a shower and making breakfast (egg thingies with apples). Thanks to heather overflowing her diaper while playing with us in our bed we got to strip it down and do laundry today.

After breakfast we went to country club looking for a beater for stephs mixer. It's a morphy russel and not really available in canada. The mall was actually quite busy due to a kids fair of some sort. Anyways we ran into Jenny in her store the cooks nook and she doesn't carry anything like that. She did tell us that David was working an open house today and where. We continued on to batteries not included but they had never heard of morphy russel either. She was going to look into it and call me though so we'll see. I'm capable of searching the net for parts on my own but whatever. I also stopped in the source to see if they have a USB remote control to use with XMBC. they suggested future shop. When leaving for future shop we ran into Carolyn, her husband dean, daughter and 7 day old new daughter. God new babies are small and they grow up quick. Heather is 2 years old in 3 days and huge compared to that baby. Future shop had nothing that I could see and noone was interested in helping me since I wasn't drooling over an ipad. I'll have to order a remote online. I don't see the appeal in the ipad. Yes sitting on my couch reading web pages or watching movies would be cool. of course I can do that for a hell of a lot cheaper on my old crappy laptop. The only thing I can think of where it might be useful is for magazines. A very expensive magazine viewer. I'm not going to start paying for magazines though so it's a moot point.

We left country club and headed to visit david. It was nice, the house he is trying to sell wasn't. Good yard but the house smelled, was not the cleanest and was strangely setup. Add on's and changes and so on. $329,900. Good luck on that. Apparently it's not insanely priced and we just did very well on our house.

Leaving there we came home but heather would have none of it. So we grabbed snowy and the jar of honey bee lure and off to the lot it was. Stopped and steph grabbed stuff for lunch on the way. Bun's, salami, smoked chicken, some potato chips and a chocolate bar. $17. Prices seem to be up but I haven't looked into it closely. We got to the lot but the parents weren't there. they arrived about 15 minutes later having been at lunch. we hung out and talked then I re-baited baited 2 of the swarm traps. dad had pulled a nail from the third trap to turn it into a bird house since they seemed interested. I grabbed the top bars to bring home and then some chunks of plywood to make mom a proper bird house.

We took the long way home and then I made her a birdhouse. It's a simple thing I'll have to attach a photo later. I also finished the last swarm trap for here. It's mounted in front of the patio door with it's entrance facing south about 12 feet off the ground.

After that was dinner (chicken, carrots and some sort of noodles, probably a sidekick thing) then I continued laundry,cleaned the downstairs bathroom and did garbages while steph played with heather and read. Then bath time for heather followed by some books and then bed.

At 9:00 I left for groceries. I was craving prosciutto but it was $3.10 per 100 grams. This got me thinking I should make some at home. I've tracked down a book at the library and will request it. Maybe this is doable without dying. Not sure.

Came home half hour later and watched the oil spill live feeds. Lots of action from the ROV's but nothing exciting. They seem to be getting ready to cut the riser pipe off. That means top kill failed but the giant geyser of oil we saw earlier was a clue.

So really all I got done today was a birdhouse and a swarm trap. Prosciutto at home sounds crazy but probably doable. Steph seems game but I'm not sure if she'll stay that way with meat curing in the basement ;)